Eric4280

You mean the super cool , witty one liners?

How dare people have opinions.

This fanbase will be torn apart on Young vs Stroud. Gonna be a long 6 weeks.

No lmao, I love college ball without a favorite tbh. Yeah that’s a great program for sure. No doubting it. But I see what Garrett Wilson did with Jets QB play and Olave with Saints qb play. And I just wonder who makes what, ya know? Obviously over ALL of this. I trust the helm whatever they do, I’ll support. As badly as I want Young.

You’re going to honestly say that the talent level in OSU and Bama on the offensive side of the ball was similar, bud?

Normally , yes I’d agree, but in my opinion, OSU was much more NFL loaded across the board. But I respect the opinion on the view of it, nothing personal either.

Strouds line was better. This isn’t a question. But y’all are right. Let me not be skeptical of Stroud at all because y’all like em.

When did I say - “the SEC is the nfl” he absolutely saw stiffer competition than Stroud did, with less weaponry, and didn’t need to retire after a hit. If you’re gonna be skeptical of Young because of size, fine, but allow me to be skeptical of Stroud because I think his tape looked mighty… mid tier qb. Not a bad qb by any measure.

This past Bama offense was led by this RB in yards. This is one of the worse skill position crops bama had put out. Harrison probably goes top five next year and Egbuka is a first rounder. Burton will more than likely not be.

He’s “my favorite guy” because he’s the best guy. His game has elite traits. Fine Stroud is very accurate, I’m not knocking that. He doesn’t do anything out of structure and will be asked to in the nfl. So YOURE gonna cherry pick the fact that he’s light and just assume that he can’t bulk up, can’t maneuver at his size? I get it, the SEC isn’t the nfl. But it’s damn sure a lot closer to the nfl than the big10 is. He’s played at this size and once again, he’s aware of his size limitations and his play STYLE reflects that. To the user that brought up surrounding talent- stop. Please don’t compare a year of Metchie and J. will to the FIVE first round picks that Stroud has worked with. God forbid I take caution that Bryce is much more experienced in working with less. But no let me just automatically love Stroud because he’s 6’3 and throws a great slant route to first round wr. No delusion here. I go with what I watch. What I watch - prefers Young.

Also , my apologies for the ignorance of McCord. I was admittedly unfamiliar with his game.

I get it. You’re gonna bring up numbers and defend your guy. That’s fine. But you can’t leave things out like who’s he’s played WITH and what he’s played AGAINST. We can cherry pick Georgia in the final but I’m looking at the eye test on every player (not a bama fan by any measure) and I’d rather take the player that offers more with less.

I don’t doubt he’ll tear it up. That system breeds success. Bama usually does too, though. And being 5’10 doesn’t bother me. He’s always been 5’10 and been as magical as he is. In the SEC.

Wonder how cheap that would be.

I respect the open mindedness towards that sentiment and I totally see why someone would like Stroud as a safer option. I just see Bryce as the face the the league kinda player.

No comps for trades, unfortunately.

I’m personally still viewing him that way. There’s a good post on Reddit looking into Bryce size and overblown injury concerns. YES it’s absolutely possible he’s more prone to certain things. But if you watch him, as small as he is, he’s very compact and organized with his body. He knows what he can take physically and doesn’t push it. I just see him as a franchise saver. I’m the highest Bryce guy you’ll meet.

I feel like every thread is “who can we take who do they like, I like Stroud tho”.

If we’re genuinely looking at AR15, we have to move down to 2 at LEAST and get something back. I highly think a move to one isn’t necessary.

Exactly this , exactly this, exactly this. The patchwork we are going to throw around Stroud will suck. I do not care about our minimal cap space this year or that second round pick. That isn’t supplementing Stroud properly. Our rb suck (as good as they’ve been, ANY nfl rb would’ve excelled behind this line, running 45 times a game). We don’t have a “weapon” out of the backfield. We need Gibbs or something splashy. Our tight end room is dog water too. Our wr room is LOL. Stroud never had to deal with all of this and I personally do not see him overcoming it. Young HAS in the Sec and Bama looks damn near like an un ranked team without him. This OSU qb bum this upcoming season will look more than serviceable because of that conference, that wr talent, and the coaches ability to scheme to the qbs strength.

The gameplan was perfect. It mostly worked. I just don’t see the things Stroud does that makes him the 4/1 favorite amongst our fanbase in terms of number one selection. I guess size is the factor for a lot of people but Young has franchise potentials. Is it out of the realm of possibility that Stroud is just in that “almost a franchise guy but won’t quite get there” tier?

This game was LITTERED with west coast style quick slants and a few deep flats. They’re not bad throws by any stretch of my imagination but Young just does so much more.

No. Stop mortgaging more future capital. We’re already behind the 8 ball with future picks. If this doesn’t work , we’re screwed for the next three years. Just stay where you are and take Flowers or Downs or Hyatt and see if Rice or someone falls to our third. Or even Boutte late third. Down year but has WR one upside and showed the pedigree before this year.

I think we’re underrated how hard it is to replace GOOD Wr. Fact of the matter is we have a bottom 5 RB room, bottom 3 WR group, bottom 5 TE group. If we had a decent TE room and young stud RB, fine, we can patchwork the WR group. We have NO identity in skill positions on offense and I can’t find ANY team with a worse group of weapons than we do at this point. Thielen, Meyers, Flowers, Downs, Hyatt… doesnt fix this. The identity is going to be strong OL, rookie QB, crappy wr, rb, and te group. I keep saying it but YOUNG thrives in this setup a lot more than Stroud does. Bryce has had crumbs to work with compared to what Stroud has always had.